Dow AgroSciences, New York attorney general resolve advertising dispute.

(From Chemical Business NewsBase - Press Release)

Dow AgroSciences and the New York attorney general have resolved differences over how pesticides can be described in company communications accessible to New Yorkers. The new agreement expressly acknowledges the company's right to defend its products against false statements made by others and clearly distinguishes between such defence and claims made in advertising. This action, formalised in a consent order, updates a ten-year-old agreement with the New York attorney general's office under which the company agreed that in advertising or product literature accessible to residents of the state of New York it would not …